[EBB Sightings] golden crowns

Dear Birders:

I'm adding my voice to the 'chorus' of emails regarding the late presence of 
golden-crowned sparrows.  As of this morning I have at least 6 GCs at my 
feeder, all in breeding plumage and even livelier than ever.  I've been 
keeping feeder records for about 30 years and this is the latest date by a 
week of their continued presence. Occasionally I have recorded a single bird 
lingering beyond the 15th by a day or two.

Does the cold wet spring which still has us in its chilly, gray grip offer a 
possible explanation -- even though length-of-day appears to be the 
determinate of migratory patterns?

That roving band of band-tailed pigeons descended on my deck this morning --  
a pulsing solid mass of steel-gray feathers that gave new meaning to the 
word 'density.'

Phila Rogers